Graduates may fill the following professional roles and relative functions in the listed fields of employment:
Information Technology and Business Strategy expert in the ICT sectors
Functions:
- interprets the opportunities offered by the Internet as a support tool for business and competitive strategy;
- analyses and interprets the dynamics of relevant business sectors and their economic, strategic and organisational problems, designing and building virtual environments to simulate alternative strategies in different socio-economic scenarios;
- designs integration plans for existing company technologies. In particular, supervises the introduction of Internet technologies in the organisation, developing and implementing risk analysis techniques to identify hazardous situations and reduce the risk of damage;
- organises and runs Internet firms working in the telecommunications and computing field, interpreting the opportunities offered by the Internet as a support tool for business and competitive strategy. Also analyses and interprets the dynamics of relevant business sectors and their economic, strategic and organisational problems, designing and building virtual environments to simulate alternative strategies in different socio-economic scenarios;
- analyses and interprets the dynamics of high tech sectors, identifying new products and processes and interpreting their economic, strategic and organisational problems. Designs and implements procedures and technologies to improve business processes and company structure; designs integration plans for existing company technologies. In particular, supervises the introduction of Internet technologies in the organisation, developing and implementing risk analysis techniques to identify hazardous situations and reduce the risk of damage;
- analyses business processes and company structures to develop procedures and technologies for their improvement, also using specific business intelligence and data mining software;
- plans, organises, manages and monitors all production phases of an IT project, monitoring the state of progress and identifying any intrusions or attempts at electronic espionage against the company he works for, in order to guarantee and protect data on the Internet, intranet and other networks;
- designs, produces, integrates and assesses the software used in a website or web application;
- studies and identifies the reasons behind on-line purchases and the methods used to conclude such sales, developing on-line marketing initiatives, identifying the “consumer type” to be targeted and assessing the advantages of e-commerce;
- designs and creates multimedia applications by listening to, understanding and interpreting customer needs and requests;
- designs and builds financial analysis software.
Career opportunities:
- Specialist consultant for the organisation and management of Internet businesses and firms working in the telecommunications and
IT sectors;
- Chief Innovation Officer (CIO);
- E-government specialist;
- MIS (Management Information System) specialist in international consulting firms, banks, companies and local government;
- specialist in organisational and information systems in international consulting firms;
- DSS (Decision Support Systems) specialist in medium and large companies;
- Specialist designer of support systems for Net Economy firms;
- IT system security manager for firms and public authorities;
- i-CRM (Customer Relationship Management) manager;
- Specialist in technological infrastructures for e-commerce;
- Specialist in multimedia applications for the cultural products industry;
- Specialist in information infrastructures for financial intermediation on the Internet.
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- Production companies, service industries, banks and the public administration
- Consulting firms
- Organisations with highly complex structures and technologies
- Communications firms
- Internet operators (providers, search engines, etc.) and mobile/land phone operators
- Research and development departments in large firms and the public administration
